New College Hill Community Logo

On August 2, 2005, the College Hill Urban Redevelopment Corporation (CHCURC) unveiled a new College Hill Logo to the community.

This logo was designed to create a vibrant, active, recognizable image reflecting the community's rich history, its natural and architectural surroundings and its diversity.

The two halves of the logo represent College Hill's nature and architecture . The curve in the middle represents Hamilton Avenue as it comes up the hill and shows that College Hill is progressive and moving towards the future. The leaves breaking out of greenery imply that the community is expansive and inviting new growth. The architectural elements represent the character and history of College Hill. The two halves merging on a common path represent the community working together and shows openness to change. The tag line reinforces the most-loved positives of College Hill, that it is a "Diverse" and "Neighborly" community.

The logo was developed by CHCURC's Identity Committee led by Don Cluxton. To learn what College Hill means to its residents and business owners and what they like most about their community, the committee distributed surveys and conducted focus groups throughout the community. They then worked with Cincinnati's graphic design department to create the final design, which was unanimously embraced by the CHCURC Board.

CHCURC's goal is for this unique logo to appear on all public notices, way finding signage and public structures, as well as community web sites, newsletters and letterheads. A Standards Guide for the College Hill Logo and Identity System is available from CHCURC.

About the College Hill eNewsletter

The mission of the College Hill eNewsletter is to make College Hill an even better place to live and do business by telling the story of our vital, diverse, involved community. The intended audience is all residents of College Hill as well as non-residents who are interested in keeping up on what's happening in College Hill.

• It is timely--approximately weekly, depending on circumstances.
• Its contents represent a broad spectrum of things about and of interest to our diverse community, but are biassed towards stories of College Hill people working together to improve our community.
• It is short & sweet, with links to lengthy explainations appearing on the various community web sites or in the College Hill eNewsletter Blogspace.
• It is sent only to people who want to see it; subscribers add or remove themselves from the distribution list.
• It is a work in progress, and changes as we learn together how to best serve the community.